Paul Mooney

Comedian + Writer + Actor

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BornAug 4, 1941

Age73

HometownUnited States

GenresImprovisational c...

NationalityUnited States

Paul Gladney, better known by the stage name Paul Mooney, is an American comedian, writer, social critic, television and film actor. He was also featured on one of truTV's reality shows, Ma's Roadhouse.

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' Richard Pryor and Jamie Masada at Laugh Factory''s Comedy Camp, 2002
Word is out that the casting net is circling to find someone to play the late, great Richard Pryor in a biopic. Hopefully, the focus will be on finding someone who can capture not only Richard''s stand-up skills but his richly humanizing personal life. As great as he was on stage, his offstage actions made a believer of a teenager who was celebrating his first night as a comedy club owner back in 1979. It was a first e...

'By Simon Webb and Paul Mooney BANGKOK (Reuters) - The Thai military may have a well-rehearsed coup playbook after overthrowing a dozen governments, but it''s never come up against the power of social media, as used by dissenters worldwide to share information - and that may prove a game-changer. Protesters appear in droves only to melt away when soldiers link hands to encircle them. In uprisings as different in origin and outcome as the so-called Arab Sprin...

'Bloomberg News is hitting back after the New York Times reported that Bloomberg killed stories fearing retaliation from the Chinese government. Bloomberg responded on Saturday. "It is absolutely false that we postponed these stories due to external pressure," the organization said in a statement. "We are disappointed that they chose to publish a piece that claims otherwise." The Times'' report appeared on the front page on Saturday after the newspaper spoke to four Bloomberg employees who...

'I did not expect The Muslims Are Coming! to bring tears to my eyes. It was supposed to be a (film about) comedy after all, a film about the absurdity of Islamophobia in the United States, and about the role of comedy in combating stereotypes and generalizations about a community. But, hearing comedians Negin Farsad and Dean Obeidallah, the directors of the film, discuss how their parents moved to the United States, the love they had for the country even before arriving, and the struggles of ...